At Student Beans, we needed to implement the ability to reorder featured offers within our internal CMS. Previous designs had already been created but I wanted to take another look and see if anything needed changing.
It was important for me to ensure the offer status was clear to the team using the CMS. They needed to be able to see the status of the offer itself and if the offer was featured or scheduled to be featured. The original designs had used colours to display this, however I decided to just use table columns to show it. This means less work for the user while they try and figure out what status the offer is.
To ensure that the team would easily be able to see the statuses of the offers, I used Maze to run some user testing. I displayed the above image of the table, and asked them which offer corresponds to each status combination. I was satisfied with the results so stuck with that solution. I also made changes to the navigation which I tested with Maze. Below is a screenshot of a heatmap which indicated the new order of navigation items needed to be changed. The team were clicking Brands instead of Discounts because of muscle memory from the current navigation.
2020
